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“We have accepted the status that the government and the Tigers are equal partners in the peace talks; we accord mutual respect. Therefore, there should be no persistence that the talks should be based on the proposals put forward by only one side- " Jayantha Dhanapala, Secretary General, Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process.

Sri Lanka President has announced that she is ready to meet the elusive rebel leader Velupillai Prabakaran and talk peace or in case the Tigers continues to avoid peace talks, then to send troops to settle the issue of peace with definite finality.

Nirj Deva, Member of the European Parliament for South East England and a member of the influential Foreign Affairs Committee in the European Parliament have today lifted the lid on the true horror of the dictatorship in the Maldives, a nation commonly associated with peace, serenity and relaxation

India is likely to send some advice soon to Maldives President Abdul Gayoom who is now fighting anti-government demonstrations in the Indian Ocean island that he is ruling with an iron hand for over a quarter century.

ration Tigers of Tamil Eelam has told very loud and clearly that they are only prepared to participate in a peace talk with the Government of Sri Lanka on the basis of the Interim Self-Governing Authority proposal put forward by them on 31 October 2003 and not on any other basis despite international community’s pressure on the Tamil out fit to start the stalled peace talks.

Pebam Chittaranjan turned a new chapter in the history of Manipuri people’s struggle for right to life, when he lit himself as a Human Torch denouncing the black laws on 15 August at Bishnupur. He succumbed to burn injuries at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital at Imphal on 16 August.

World Alliance for Peace (WAPS) in Sri Lanka has lambasted Professor Shalks, Jehan Perera and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam for the uncalled for remarks on the speakers of the conference as well as on the forthcoming Peace Conference itself.

Bangladesh Customs Department anticipated that tax earning will decreased from Burma-Bangladesh border trade during current fiscal year, if in case action is taken to prohibit the entry of foreign goods entering into Bangladesh through the Burma- Bangladesh border.

Sri Lanka Government in a statement posted in its official website yesterday, has strongly condemned the killing of Kandasamy Iyer Balanadarajah, Media Secretary of the Eelam People’s Democratic Party , and co-founder of the Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students.

Dhaka’s continued refusal to acknowledge the presence of Indian insurgent groups in Bangla Desh despite conclusive evidence provided by India continues to remain a major irritant in Indo Bangla Desh relations. India has over the past years, on several occasions, provided Bangla Desh lists of rebel camps with their exact locations only to be told that no such camps were evident anywhere in the country.

Faced with a politically embarrassing, rapid rise in inflation, India’s new United Progressive Alliance(UPA) government will eat the humble pie and cut excise and customs duty on petrol, diesel, LPG and kerosene. The move is seen as a desperate bid to contain the impact of spurt in international crude oil prices that has touched an all time high of $47 a barrel.